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Lasers have been around since the 1960s, and the
technology has proven to be transformative across
a wide range of applications and industries. From
cutting steel and reshaping retinas to storing and
reading data, lasers have become so commonplace
that it’s easy to forget the word itself is an acronym
that describes the process by which this amazing
light is created: Light Amplification by Stimulated
Emission of Radiation

Thanks to new edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI), organizations can now consolidate storage considered impossible to consolidate due to the response time requirements of branch-bound applications that rely on local storage.

Data transfer bottlenecks and unpredictability on the Wide Area Network (WAN) can hurt application performance. In addition, the time required to migrate large volumes of data to and from data centers can be a serious concern to business continuity.

End users want to be productive just as much as the business wants them to be. Most people thrive in environments where they are set up to succeed, and IT has a strategic role in that process. Simply put, users expect applications to be faster.

This KPMG report looks at the typical costs associated with setting up and operating a manufacturing business in Bahrain, compared to the costs in other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
It covers company format>on; land rental and construction; utilities; manpower; visas and labor; and ports and commerce.

Learn 7 success strategies for your Integrated Business Planning (IBP) journey and see how the right technologies can help drive the right process and create the best business value for your organization.

7 critical factors for developing an integrated business process that drives collaboration and unied focus across multiple divisions and departments to align operational planning with financial planning.

Supply Chain Insights in their study found that more than 80% of the companies they surveyed had an S&OP process. However, most companies have varying levels of maturity with it, and hence, very mixed results. The starting point to building a roadmap for a mature and successful S&OP process is to assess your current process. Gartner’s Maturity Model provides a very good mechanism for it.

Steel Dynamics had a confusing mix of contact lists and brochures for more than a dozen benefit vendors. They knew they needed a strategic partner to help them transform the employee user experience. Castlight Health was that partner. They gave the steel maker a way to provide employees with a single place to access and understand their benefits. The results were pretty impressive, as employee engagement quickly soared to 87%.

Tired of year after year of healthcare cost increases, Steel Dynamics decided to fight back. They partnered with Castlight Health, a cloud-based provider of healthcare management services. Castlight Health’s health benefits platform armed employees with buying information — when and how they needed it. As a result, Steel Dynamics cut healthcare spending by approximately $500,000 in their first year with Castlight Health.

Small businesses define our economy, accounting for over 50% of all private sector jobs in Australia. And to thrive, they need to turn on fast and sustainable business growth.
Download the exclusive eBook to see how they
-Grew revenue 44% in just 6 months
-Increased web traffic by 500%
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And get insights and advice from three successful entrepreneurs:
-TripADeal: Norm Black, Founder
-Nu-Steel Homes: Ash Richardson, General Manager
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AWS makes it simple to set up cloud-based resources. But do you have secure, high-capacity, high-performance connectivity to and between AWS cloud instances? That’s where Riverbed comes in. Riverbed’s SD-WAN solution enables cloud migration and performance, all managed via quick and simple workflows.
Register for the upcoming webinar to experience a fundamentally new approach to networking, with real users sharing their experience in addition to a joint customer, OpenEye that has saved time and money by utilizing this approach to cloud networking.
OpenEye Scientific Software leveraged Riverbed SteelConnect to very quickly and easily establish secure connections to and between AWS VPCs, saving hours of network administration time.

If information is the lifeblood of today's digital economy, data centers are the heart. These mini-metropolises of silicon, metal, and cable are as essential to modern business as steel, motors, and coal were to the last great industrial revolution. In addition to their vital role in most business processes, data centers are the building blocks of emerging trends such as Big Data, global collaboration, and even bring-your-own-device (BYOD).
The white paper describes:
The widening gap between the offensive capabilities of today's cyber attackers and the weak traditional defenses deployed in most data centers;
How organizations can better protect data centers.

In this paper, learn how Tata Steel Europe achieved 2-3x faster and more efficient planning
Tata Steel Europe (TSE) knew they wanted to connect supply chain processes to the rest of the business—and that required a true platform. “The deciding factor was the robust nature of Anaplan’s platform. It is not just a planning solution for supply chain planning experts,” said Ardy Duwel, Head of Commercial Projects Office at TSE. “We wanted something that would scale to meet the needs of our planning professionals while bringing the rest of our business into the planning process."

In this paper, learn how Tata Steel Europe achieved 2-3x faster and more efficient planning
Tata Steel Europe (TSE) knew they wanted to connect supply chain processes to the rest of the business—and that required a true platform. “The deciding factor was the robust nature of Anaplan’s platform. It is not just a planning solution for supply chain planning experts,” said Ardy Duwel, Head of Commercial Projects Office at TSE. “We wanted something that would scale to meet the needs of our planning professionals while bringing the rest of our business into the planning process."

Riverbed SteelFusion, as the first converged infrastructure solution purpose-built for the branch, promises to transform branch IT through the stateless “projection” of data, applications, and VMs actually stored in the datacenter. In this Taneja Group Technology Validation we found that SteelFusion truly can transform branch IT by reducing complexity, injecting powerful capabilities and making the branch resilient, protected, and recoverable.

This CIO article discusses how WAN optimization solutions, like those Riverbed Technology offers, can accelerate private cloud implementations and enable users to be productive, while helping to deliver the cost and management efficiencies businesses require. Read the informational story now and learn why companies like MasterBrand Cabinets chose Steelhead WAN optimization appliances for superior performance.

In this report, Taneja Group explores how Riverbed Technology has identified a way to lower IT costs in branch offices. The new Steelhead EX + Granite appliance combines a "branch-office box" virtualized hardware platform with a first-of-its-kind block storage technology to allow consolidation of edge storage, servers, and applications to the data center. Download the report to learn how your organization can benefit.

This informative ESG Lab report examines the Riverbed Steelhead EX + GraniteT appliance, which delivers a powerful combination of wide area network (WAN) optimization, a virtual services platform, and innovative block-storage optimization to help organizations consolidate servers and storage and deliver IT services globally, while ensuring the performance required in remote and branch offices. Download this informative report now to find out how edge-VSI can improve your IT infrastructure.

Riverbed® SteelHeadTM SaaS addresses cloud services/software as a service (SaaS) performance challenges by providing an easy-to-deploy optimization solution that meets customer needs for application performance over WAN and Internet connections.
Combining private wide area network (WAN) and public internet optimization, the SteelHead SaaS is a first-of-its-kind solution, which optimizes traffic across the public Internet with Riverbed’s award-winning SteelHead optimization system (formerly RiOS or Riverbed Optimization System) technology to accelerate data and application protocols. SteelHead SaaS delivers optimized performance up to 30x for cloud services/SaaS applications, such as Microsoft Office 365 or Salesforce.com, regardless of where the end user is located.

SteelHead SaaS offers up to 30x better application performance for cloud services and SaaS applications deployed in enterprises. The solution combines the best of WAN optimization with the best of Internet optimization to provide a seamless transition for users between private and public clouds. Customers experience application acceleration immediately, without requiring any configuration changes to the user or service provider environments.